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WATCH: Brave Youth Stand Up For LGBT Classmates in Mississippi

About 30 parents, students and community members demonstrated in front of the Rankin County Mississippi School District administrative building to protest the school's new policy requiring parental permission before youth are able to join clubs, an effort passed in reaction to the formation of a Gay Straight Alliance. Watch the video below, and click here to read more.

January 22, 2015
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Save the Date: Summer Meeting 2015 Will Be Here Soon!

Every year, the Equality Federation Institute hosts its annual Summer Meeting, bringing together LGBT movement leaders from across the country to build skills and forge connections that strengthen the incredible work that’s happening in all the communities we call home.

January 21, 2015
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Exciting Leadership Opportunity for Transgender People and LGBT People of Color

Our movement is led by some of the best and brightest individuals working hard to advance equality in the communities they call home. To develop the skills of emerging, new leaders, the Victory Institute invites LGBT leaders of color and transgender leaders to apply to the 2015 Victory Empowerment Fellowship.

January 21, 2015
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U.S. Supreme Court Will Rule on Freedom to Marry

Today the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging same-sex marriage bans in four states in the Sixth Circuit, and a ruling is expected in June.

January 17, 2015
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Unsung Victories: Marriage and Beyond in Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon and South Dakota

State-based organizations across the country are advancing major progress in the communities we call home -- where the work is hard, but the impact is great. We are only two weeks into 2015, and already another state has won the freedom to marry, and another could be on its way.

January 14, 2015
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Messaging For What's Next in the West

Last year, Idaho and Montana became two of the 36 states (and D.C.) that now have the freedom to marry. This was a great advancement for LGBT people in these states, but it also brought about a new reality: it is now legal to marry a same-sex partner in the same state where protections against discrimination are limited.

January 14, 2015

Press Releases

Federal Judge Blocks UNC from Enforcing Discriminatory Provision of HB2

Equality Federation joins Federation member Equality North Carolina in hailing a decision by a federal judge to suspend the enforcement of the discriminatory provisions of North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ law, HB2 until plaintiffs have their opportunity to make their case in court.

August 30, 2016
The Egregious Anti-Transgender Ruling in Texas

On Sunday August 22nd, in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. District Court Judge Reed Charles O’Connor issued a preliminary order in Texas v. United States, a case in which public officials in Texas and 10 other states are challenging nondiscrimination protections for transgender students and employees.

August 25, 2016
Is Brokeback Mountain Real? The Stories of Queer Wyoming.

August 18, 2016
Discomfort Is Part of the Work (LGBTQ & #BlackLivesMatter)

Two years ago, Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, a city where less than two years before, we worked with the Ferguson City Council to pass the first inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance in North County.

August 12, 2016
Federal Court Hears Arguments in Texas Case Seeking to Roll Back Transgender Protections

On Friday, August 12th, a federal court in Forth Worth Texas will hear arguments in State of Texas v. United States, a lawsuit that is a clear attack on transgender people with the sole purpose of enshrining discrimination into the law.

August 12, 2016
Equality Florida & Orlando Community Condemn Trump & Rubio for Speaking at Anti-LGBTQ Event

ORLANDO, FL – Equality Federation member Equality Florida, faith leaders, and family members of victims of the Pulse shooting were joined by nearly 200 local advocates on August 11th outside the “Rediscovering God in America” conference in Orlando to call out Marco Rubio and Donald Trump.

August 12, 2016
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